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Grateful that ‘Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun’ (2019) is now earning royalty checks, small ones, but still, that means the photobook has earned out its advance (sold enough copies to cover the entire $20,000 advance). Photobooks are always niche so it means a lot, especially being even

Why not friend if friend-shaped? For something so dangerous, polar bears are ridiculously cute. #mammals 🌿

Now fucking arrest Mark Zuckerberg

Vocês tem noção que esta é a SEGUNDA eleição que a gente ganha contra tudo e contra todos? Contra toda a polícia rodoviária, os militares que apoiavam o Jair, a imprensa, os empresários, a big tech, a porra dos Estados Unidos.

Walked into The Vinyl Diner on Broadway in Saskatoon today, on a grey, wintry, blustery day and heard “I’m a dinosaur. Somebody is digging my bones,” and it lifted my mood instantly, especially as it was a mint version of the 2019 remaster that I walked out with.

“My New Years Eve Toast: To all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.” ~ Her journal, NYE, 1947 ~ Patricia Highsmith

One student, one continent-sized mushroom… It’s a battle as old as time!

Through the lens of Greg Girard (photographs 1972-2026) The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, BC. 1) Silver Grill Cafe, Vancouver, BC 1975. 2) Children on the rooftop, Kowloon Walled City, China 1989. 3) Lotus Hotel, Vancouver, BC 1982.

Not Handel but water music nonetheless.

Chippewas of Rama artist Arthur Shilling (1941-1986) in stills from the 1977 NFB documentary ‘The Beauty of My People,’ directed by Alan Collins. | © NFB Archives

And Cecil Big Knife (Cree/Chippewa) adds his flair, from Rocky Boy Reservation, Montana. A studio portrait dated ca. 1910. #Borderlands 📷 Montana State University-Northern (photographer unknown)

Roger Four Winds (Cree/Chippewa), absolutely stylin' in chaps, boots and hat. Photographed near Rocky Boy Reservation, Montana, ca. 1930 Photographer: Unknown | Montana Historical Society Archives

“Lining both sides of these corridors, which get their light from above, are the most elegant shops, so that the arcade is a city, a world in miniature” - Walter Benjamin | The Arcades Project Galleria Umberto I, Napoli | Fujifilm XE-5

From the ‘Soul Trembles,’ covering 30 years of creation by Chiharu Shiota, the first North American stop, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal until February 14, 2027. Simply stunning, threads of life. | Fujufilm XE-5

Early morning and take-away Cantonese dumplings for breakfast from Kam Fung in Montreal’s Chinatown. After a month in Paris I’ve missed this. For diversity of cuisines and excellent restaurants, Montreal beats Paris every time.

Best cure for jet lag after a 7 1/2 hour flight from Paris is to head straight to Chinatown in Montreal and walk around.

Dałdałagamł -Transformation Mask @quaibranly, musée du quai Branly in Paris as part of Premières Nations, Arts et cultures du Nord~Ouest de L’Amérique, 29 September 2026 – 17 January 2027.

Bill Reid’s Haida House facade (5 metres x 3 metres), created during his time in Paris in 1989. Polychrome on wood panels. musée du quai Branly in Paris as part of Premières Nations, Arts et cultures du Nord~Ouest de L’Amérique, 29 September 2026 – 17 January 2027.

🧀 “How can one govern a country which has 258 cheeses?” Charles De Gaulle to journalist Jean-Raymond Tournoux | A Certain Idea Of France 🧀

To paraphrase Cormac McCarthy, ‘this is no elevator for old men.’ Rule #1: if you have a backpack 🎒 take it off BEFORE you get in, otherwise you get stuck, sometimes facing the wrong way.

Galignani, 224 Rue de Rivoli, another English language bookstore in Paris, the first actually, and if you’re into books you should add it your must visit list. In my opinion it has the best curated selection of English titles in Paris.